Bergen County Academies (BCA) is a tuition-free public magnet high school located in Hackensack, New Jersey that serves students in the ninth through twelfth grades from Bergen County, New Jersey. The school was founded by Dr. John Grieco, also founder of the Academies at Englewood, in 1991.
The school is currently organized into seven academies: Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology (AAST), Academy for Business and Finance (ABF), Academy for Culinary Arts and Hospitality Administration (ACAHA), Academy for Engineering and Design Technology (AEDT), Academy for Medical Science Technology (AMST), Academy for Technology and Computer Science (ATCS), and Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA).
In 2021, Niche ranked BCA as the #1 best public high school in America. BCA was also named as one of the 23 highest performing high schools in the United States by The Washington Post. BCA is a National Blue Ribbon School, a member of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools, home of eleven 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars including two Finalists, and a Model School in the Arts as named by the New Jersey Department of Education.
As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,086 students and 96.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. There were 38 students (3.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 17 (1.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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